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My grandfather used to stir 2 raw eggs into his beer first thing every morning. He lived until age 89. I like to make egg coffee, but I’m not sure they are raw anymore after being mixed into hot coffee.
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Movies and TV shows (general recommendation thread)
rkbabang replied to Liberty's topic in General Discussion
Just finished watching a show on HBO's "MAX" called "Gangs Of London". Excellent show, but be warned there is a lot of graphic violence and torture type scenes (more graphic than most cable TV shows). There are 2 seasons and the ending left open the possibility of another season. -
None. I've been eating eggs daily for well over a decade, I'm 50 yrs old and my cholesterol is fine. As @Spekulatius said dietary cholesterol isn't associated with excess blood cholesterol. And it is an essential nutrient for brain function. Eggs yokes are so packed with good fats, vitamins, minerals and cholesterols in a nice tidy tiny package, they are a superfood. I like to make scrambled eggs with 3 whole eggs and 1 egg yolk to reduce overdoing the protein. Egg whites are just protein without much nutritional value. The value is in the yolks.
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In my house we go through a couple dozen per week, so those 6 dozen wouldn't even last a month! I was going to reply that eggs have a long shelf-life (in the fridge). If you can't eat 6 dozen eggs by the time they expire you are not eating anywhere near enough eggs. I eat about 3-4 eggs per day myself on most days, so 6 dozen would only last me around 18-24 days. That doesn't count my wife and son. We typically go though about 4+ dozen eggs per week in my house. If I saw eggs at $0.99/dozen I'd buy a lot more than 6.
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You can’t talk about this topic with just anyone. Cormac McCarthy's Ex-Wife Pulled a Gun Out of Her Vagina During an Argument About Aliens https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/cormac-mccarthys-ex-wife-pulled-gun-out-her-vagina-while-arguing-about-aliens/356822/
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Same. I've had some success with oil companies, but even with oil about half the time I lose my shirt. I haven't tried investing in gold or uranium mining companies yet, and I most likely will not.
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I'm up significantly in SRUUF and think there is a huge upside still to come. I hesitated buying Cameco or the other uranium companies while trying to understand them and missed out on the run-up so far. Physical Uranium seemed like the surest way to play it to me, I always hesitate to buy mining companies.
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Sure and modern designs are far less dangerous still and far cheaper to build, but nothing is better than the feeling of firing up those coal plants and pouring tons of soot into the air while patting yourself on the back in public for saving the planet from politically incorrect clean energy.
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I know Germany in shutting down all its clean Nuclear plants has decided that Coal is the future.
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Or like what Canada did to the truckers and those supporting them. That was without CBDC, with CBDC the government's power to control what you can and can't buy, or to just shut you off from access to your money becomes much worse. Whether its what happened to the truckers, pot shops not having access to banking, paypal and the credit card companies shutting off donations to Wikileaks, etc... No government or government regulated institution should be trusted with this type of power over your wealth. I'm just afraid many people won't realize this until its too late. When they can't buy groceries because of something they posted to Facebook, or they can't put gas in their car because they've already spent too much on gas that month and saving the planet requires cutting them off. People are eventually going to want a censorship proof money outside of government control. Or you get paid with money with an expiration dates to force you to spend it rather than save. CBDC is a nightmare dystopian 1984 scenario.
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People tend to think that just because credit cards are now accepted everywhere and people use them for just about every purchase that it was always that way. The growth in card use to where it is now took many decades. I remember my parents would cash my fathers pay check for actual cash and keep it in a drawer in the house for my mother to buy groceries and pay the bills (back then, at least in our area, you could pay your electricity bill or phone bill at the service desk of the grocery store using cash). Credit cards were something you used only for large purchases which you needed to pay off over time. My parents never used them at all when I was young.
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From "The hole in Bitcoin" above: "The hole in Bitcoin We love the science behind Bitcoin (your editor is a mathematician and programmer of the 1980s era, so it brings out his inner geek), but here is the biggest flaw: the economics of it. For Bitcoin to succeed, it has to become a transaction currency, widely-accepted by the real world for goods and services. With a cap of 21 million Bitcoins, the accepted wisdom driving prices is that spreading the limited supply of Bitcoins over all these real-world transactions, even with fractional reserve banking, would necessitate a high valuation per Bitcoin." Go to your local coffee shop, pull out a bag of gold shavings and a scale, then ask the person at the counter how many milligrams of gold for one large coffee? Just the notion of it is ridiculous. This is "the hole in" the theory that gold has value. Sell your gold now before everyone else realizes this. Since this isn't a hole at all, we won't mention the fact that layer 2 methods make paying for that coffee with bitcoin relatively simple and straightforward if the shop chooses to accept it plugs the "Hole in Bitcoin" even if this was a hole.
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I agree. Back 15-20+ years ago I was a member of probably a dozen of these forums on a bunch of different topics, and a lurker on a bunch of others. Pretty much anything you were interested in there were forums to find info and discuss those topics. This is the last one I'm still a member of. I don't know why they all went away. twitter/X, facebook, reddit, etc, are all extremely poor substitutes to the traditional forum format for finding valuable information on any topic. YouTube is valuable, but I prefer reading to watching videos. It takes less time to screen through a lot of text posts than it does to watch a lot of videos. There is no way to go through hundreds of videos quickly to determine which ones are worth watching. This forum is truly a great resource. People have come and go, but the culture has remained constant.
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Have You Bought a Hostess Product in the Last Year?
rkbabang replied to Parsad's topic in General Discussion
It’s been 11 years since this post and I haven’t purchased or eaten any of these products in the last 11 years either. -
https://x.com/SallyMayweather/status/1702652630814650418
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Good interview Kuppy and Mike Alkin “Uranium” Interview at the 2023 World Nuclear Association Symposium https://pracap.com/kuppy-and-mike-alkin-uranium-interview-at-the-2023-world-nuclear-association-symposium/
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Yes, you can see the early 70s inflection point in almost every long term financial chart you look at. The dollar was doomed from that point on. We are just playing out the inevitable.
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Weird, I don't think they even had Reese's Pieces 1000 years ago. I wonder what they ate?
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1,000 year alien bodies with three fingers, metal implants displayed in Mexico "A prominent UFO expert, Jaime Maussan, made a startling presentation at the Mexican Congress, unveiling two alleged "non-human" bodies that are said to be 1,000 years old, according to reports in the media."
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Movies and TV shows (general recommendation thread)
rkbabang replied to Liberty's topic in General Discussion
I'm in neither category yet I'm going to complain. No New Hampshire location? I'm not going to drive all the way into Boston on a Tuesday night to watch a TV show even if it is SW. I'll be watching on Dis+ though, great show so far. -
Yes, with the political situation in the cities your scenario might be more likely. There is and always has been a huge advantage to population density, especially for the young. But at the very time those advantages are starting to be mitigated by technology the city elites are doing everything in their power to drive people away by making their cities expensive, over regulated, crime ridden, dirty, and just generally unlivable. A migration away from the large cities could very well take place and last for decades.
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I almost wonder if long term this could be a positive. Companies need far less office space than they used to, but that means that you can fit far more companies in the same amount of space. In other words a city like NYC could just have to grow into its current square footage. Which, in the long term, could mean the same amount of office buildings, but more companies, more people, more restaurants, more retail, and a lot more residential. That's the best case, I guess. It will take a long time to get there, if ever, and the corrupt tax&spend politicians aren't helping.
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Where that is true people are using the tech wrong and less efficiently as they could be. Since COVID my company (semiconductor industry) has gone trough a transformation. My team now has people in MA, NH, AZ, CO and Italy. You can put someone on a team if their skill set matches what is needed regardless of where they are located. I do go into the office a few times per week because I want to (usually 2 days on average), but even when I'm there only a couple of people I work with work in my location. Some people prefer the office and go in 5 days a week, others don't go in at all on average and have given up their cube. They use the hoteling in the rare event they go in. Like anything else, some will change/adapt and others won't. Some industries will need to adapt and others will not have to. I don't think things will ever go completely back to pre-covid days when almost everyone worked at the office 5 days per week. I've noticed that when I get contacted by headhunters now every job is either remote or hybrid. You just never saw that at all pre-2020.
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Are they just stupid or are they deliberately trying to destroy the cities? Buildings Are Empty, Now They Have to Go GreenRising rates, falling occupancy and new carbon taxes hit building owners or archive.today version: https://archive.ph/YLu3p
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What are you listening to ? (Music thread)
rkbabang replied to Spekulatius's topic in General Discussion
I just heard that Joe Rogan has a new 2 hour interview with him. I haven’t listened to it yet. https://open.spotify.com/episode/68AVuziUVdUJhJZkClegOZ?si=ZnatZFaeTKCigHLZMgBUWA&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk